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August 03, 2004
What Kerry Bounce?
link to the very opinionated editorial (http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/dhagin_20040803.html)
Doug Hagin
Oh how about those Democrats at their convention last week? What a show they put on. The had speeches, and raucous applause. Those attending certainly seemed to be having tons of fun didn’t they? Yes indeed it was a huge love fest in old Bean Town. But surely the Democratic Convention left some very interesting unanswered questions about the so-called party of the working class.
First and foremost who do the Democratic Party think they fooled last week? Do they really expect the American people who follow the political scene to buy their acting job? Is anyone who is not drinking the Democrats Kool-Aid really going to think the convention was a true representation of the values of the Democratic Party?
Let us be realistic here. The leaders of this party from Howard Dean to Al Gore to Ted Kennedy to Hillary Clinton herself, has been lambasting the Bush Administration for months now. Yet magically the hateful rhetoric from Ted Kennedy about the Iraq war being plotted in Texas and about Iraq being “Bush‘s Vietnam”, was not heard in Boston. Al Gore Spoke but managed not to start screaming like a maniac that Bush “ betrayed this country” and “played on our fears”. Howard Dean did not make any of his famed inferences about Bush possibly knowing about 9-11 before it happened either.
Are these folks expecting anyone to buy into this fallacious behavior? Surely the Democratic Party has not changed it’s feelings or ideology. Nor have they changed the hatred many of their supporters hold for President Bush. What they did do in Boston, though, was to pretend like they were a mainstream party. And trust me here my friends the Democrats are many things, but mainstream is not among them.
The whole masquerade party in Boston was a clever attempt to fool the undecided voters into believing the Democrats are a party which are strong on issues like national security and national defense.
The Democrats avoided gun issues and any real mention of their support for Gay marriage. My word they even had prayers to God during their convention. And abortion? They side-stepped that as well. And did you lose count of the number of times they threw the word values around? Why did they do these things? Simply put they are bright enough to realize that they can not get elected when they present their true ideology for the American people to see.
So the next question might be will this party ever turn from their increasingly left-wing ideals and again come to embrace the Constitution and traditional American values? Don’t bet on it my friends. They would rather lie to us about who they are and what they believe in than turn from their leftist values. Be very, very wary of a political party which has to pretend it is something other than it really is to get elected.
Next question for the Democrats is this. Why are you still pretending to be a party which unites America? The Democratic Party plays the race card, the wealth card, the gender card, this card, that card with alarming regularity. Then they expect us to believe they are a party that unites rather than divides?
Do they not realize credibility means not only talking the talk but walking the walk? It is an awfully tough sell for the Democrats to talk about uniting America when their Vice-Presidential nominee talks about two Americas. It is also hard to buy their talk of uniting us when they are the lap dogs of the N.A.A.C.P. and the National Organization for Women, two of the most divisive groups in America today.
How about this query for the Democrats When are you people going to get over losing in 2000? How many times must we hear the tired mantra of “ count all the votes” ? Bush won the election, yes it was close but Al Gore lost, get over it!
Now here is a really tough question for our Liberal friends to face up to. What happened to the Kerry post-convention bounce? It never materialized. For the first time since 1972 a presidential nominee did not get a noticeable increase in his poll number after his party’s convention. In fact George W. Bush gained five points on Kerry and now leads according to a USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll.
Talk about bad news for Kerry. And couple his negative post convention bounce with the fact that his naming of John Edwards as his running mate also had no positive effect on his numbers and you see a very ugly picture developing for Democrats. And remember the President still has his party’s convention in a few weeks. Want to bet his numbers do not jump after that? Didn’t think so.
So will any Democratic leader step forward and take on these questions? Again don’t bet your paycheck on it. The truth is the majority of the Democratic leadership is likely waiting on a Hillary run in 2008. Even they know Kerry is about as exciting to mainstream America as a case of indigestion.
Face this fact Democrats... Kerry has one thing going for him among most who support him, he is not Bush. They are not voting for him but against Bush. And that is not a winning recipe in November.
link to the very opinionated editorial (http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/dhagin_20040803.html)
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Don't agree with it all, but he offers some sure-fire discussion material. Doesn't he? (let the "he's a neo-con whacko" bashing begin... like we don't sit through the Bush hating. :rolleyes: )
August 03, 2004
What Kerry Bounce?
link to the very opinionated editorial (http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/dhagin_20040803.html)
Doug Hagin
Oh how about those Democrats at their convention last week? What a show they put on. The had speeches, and raucous applause. Those attending certainly seemed to be having tons of fun didn’t they? Yes indeed it was a huge love fest in old Bean Town. But surely the Democratic Convention left some very interesting unanswered questions about the so-called party of the working class.
First and foremost who do the Democratic Party think they fooled last week? Do they really expect the American people who follow the political scene to buy their acting job? Is anyone who is not drinking the Democrats Kool-Aid really going to think the convention was a true representation of the values of the Democratic Party?
Let us be realistic here. The leaders of this party from Howard Dean to Al Gore to Ted Kennedy to Hillary Clinton herself, has been lambasting the Bush Administration for months now. Yet magically the hateful rhetoric from Ted Kennedy about the Iraq war being plotted in Texas and about Iraq being “Bush‘s Vietnam”, was not heard in Boston. Al Gore Spoke but managed not to start screaming like a maniac that Bush “ betrayed this country” and “played on our fears”. Howard Dean did not make any of his famed inferences about Bush possibly knowing about 9-11 before it happened either.
Are these folks expecting anyone to buy into this fallacious behavior? Surely the Democratic Party has not changed it’s feelings or ideology. Nor have they changed the hatred many of their supporters hold for President Bush. What they did do in Boston, though, was to pretend like they were a mainstream party. And trust me here my friends the Democrats are many things, but mainstream is not among them.
The whole masquerade party in Boston was a clever attempt to fool the undecided voters into believing the Democrats are a party which are strong on issues like national security and national defense.
The Democrats avoided gun issues and any real mention of their support for Gay marriage. My word they even had prayers to God during their convention. And abortion? They side-stepped that as well. And did you lose count of the number of times they threw the word values around? Why did they do these things? Simply put they are bright enough to realize that they can not get elected when they present their true ideology for the American people to see.
So the next question might be will this party ever turn from their increasingly left-wing ideals and again come to embrace the Constitution and traditional American values? Don’t bet on it my friends. They would rather lie to us about who they are and what they believe in than turn from their leftist values. Be very, very wary of a political party which has to pretend it is something other than it really is to get elected.
Next question for the Democrats is this. Why are you still pretending to be a party which unites America? The Democratic Party plays the race card, the wealth card, the gender card, this card, that card with alarming regularity. Then they expect us to believe they are a party that unites rather than divides?
Do they not realize credibility means not only talking the talk but walking the walk? It is an awfully tough sell for the Democrats to talk about uniting America when their Vice-Presidential nominee talks about two Americas. It is also hard to buy their talk of uniting us when they are the lap dogs of the N.A.A.C.P. and the National Organization for Women, two of the most divisive groups in America today.
How about this query for the Democrats When are you people going to get over losing in 2000? How many times must we hear the tired mantra of “ count all the votes” ? Bush won the election, yes it was close but Al Gore lost, get over it!
Now here is a really tough question for our Liberal friends to face up to. What happened to the Kerry post-convention bounce? It never materialized. For the first time since 1972 a presidential nominee did not get a noticeable increase in his poll number after his party’s convention. In fact George W. Bush gained five points on Kerry and now leads according to a USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll.
Talk about bad news for Kerry. And couple his negative post convention bounce with the fact that his naming of John Edwards as his running mate also had no positive effect on his numbers and you see a very ugly picture developing for Democrats. And remember the President still has his party’s convention in a few weeks. Want to bet his numbers do not jump after that? Didn’t think so.
So will any Democratic leader step forward and take on these questions? Again don’t bet your paycheck on it. The truth is the majority of the Democratic leadership is likely waiting on a Hillary run in 2008. Even they know Kerry is about as exciting to mainstream America as a case of indigestion.
Face this fact Democrats... Kerry has one thing going for him among most who support him, he is not Bush. They are not voting for him but against Bush. And that is not a winning recipe in November.
link to the very opinionated editorial (http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/dhagin_20040803.html)
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Don't agree with it all, but he offers some sure-fire discussion material. Doesn't he? (let the "he's a neo-con whacko" bashing begin... like we don't sit through the Bush hating. :rolleyes: )